I would try to find out how much heat the nvidia card or any other card would generate under load or even without load ... You would not want a laptop to suffer from overheating ...
on 07/26/2012 11:50 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote the following: > I am buying a new laptop, most likely a dell 6340. > My choices for video are intel 4000 and nvidia nvs 5200M. > > An important consideration is that I use (via an E-port replicator) a > 30" 2560x1600 monitor > > Dell (not surprisingly) recommends the nvidia saying they are not sure > the 4000 will be good enough for watching DVDs. > > Assuming that is right, I want to be sure there is *some* driver for it. > > I would prefer nouveau as it has been trouble free for me with my > current laptop, but I don't see the nvs 5200M listed. > > For the nvidia driver I see that the "quadro nvs series" is supported > (for 290.10.00 and newer). Am I right that this includes the nvs 5200M. > > Has anyone experience with these graphics cards? > > Also how bad would it be with the intel 4000 and my hi-res display? > > thanks, > allan > > > >
